- Also Known As:
- The African Presence in Ancient America
- Year:
- 1976
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Non-fiction
- Author:
- Outstanding Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- The author presents evidence to support his claim of an African presence in the New World centuries before Columbus.
- Themes:
- Alienation
- Christianity
- Destiny
- Humanity
- Identity
- Loyalty
- Narcissism
- Personal change
- Political Correctness
- Science
- Self-expression
- Sexual Repression
- Snobbery
- Solipsism
- Stereotyping
- Totalitarianism
- White culture
- White guilt
- White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Black Athena
- Review Format:
- Book
Applying the Law of Parsimony to Blacks
Useful and compelling antidote to the usual White supremacy of scholars obsessed with proving that only Caucasoids could have produced any great cultural achievements. The peculiar White desire to prove Blacks produced nothing of value must, because of monogenesis, include Whites (since Whites evolved from Blacks) - yet the self-serving delusion remains.
The author supports his contention that Africans sailed to Ancient America over 2,000 years before Columbus with clear evidence - along with archaeological discoveries indicating the lasting impact of the resulting cultural fusion. A clear example of Ockham’s razor that Whites despair of ever refuting.
The implicit argument here is that White culture is so bereft of cultural achievements (other than those based on genocide, looting & rapine) that Whites effectively slum in other cultures in order to pretend those cultures were not Black. An attempt to obliterate the achievements of those whose exploitation by Whites built White wealth and, in so doing, salve White guilt through fallacious Hamitic hypotheses. (This helps explain why White museums are full of the achievements of other ethnic groups.)
A well-written and clear description of the past that often uses the novelistic technique of placing the reader at the center of the action by talking about historical personages as if the author had privileged access to their thoughts.
Ultimately, it is impossible to trust the Negrophobic biases and distortions of palimpsestic White history books (more concerned with ideology & propaganda than empirical knowledge) after reading this extremely likable and well-characterized work.
Copyright © 2014 Frank TALKER. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute this posting in any format; provided mention of the author’s Weblog (Esthetics) is included: E-mail notification requested. All other rights reserved.
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